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NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina All that is left of the lot where Sen. Tim Scott’s house stood on Meeting Street Road is a desolate field filled with dirt, gravel, and mounds of weed-choked grass. The poverty and crime rates in this neighborhood are consistently higher than the national averages. Some people, says Scott, call it a “nobody zone.”
But Scott, the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction, once called it home.
It was here that he lived with his grandfather, mother, and brother on the wrong side of the poverty line after his parents separated. Five family members shared two bedrooms; Scott shared a bed with his brother.
Former Idol contestant Caleb Kennedy sees songs rocket to the top of country charts Lyn Riddle, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
May 18 South Carolina singer Caleb Kennedy leaving American Idol after a controversial video of him emerged apparently hasn t phased his fans.
His EP reached No. 2 on the iTunes country chart and No. 7 among all genres this week. His mother, Anita Guy, posted that news on her Facebook page Tuesday, and the Spartanburg Herald-Journal was first to report it.
Kennedy came home to Roebuck in Spartanburg County a week ago, with two weeks left in the Idol competition. He had reached the top 5 and was shooting for the top 3.
More than 70 years after he died fighting for his country, a soldier from SC returned home Chris Lavender, Herald-Journal
For more than 70 years, it was unknown by family where Cpl. Ralph Boughman s remains were located after he was killed in the Korean War fighting for his country in 1950.
Boughman, of Union, joined the U.S. Army in August 1948 at Fort Jackson in Columbia, inspired by his brothers military service in World War II. He was 19.
His journey had just begun. After finishing basic training, he was transferred to Fort Lawton in Seattle, Washington, and then to Japan for a year before heading to Korea.